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Message: [QUOTE="Anonymous person, post: 2512677, member: 2115"] sometimes the only way of saving a try is by shoulder charging, ala fullback/wingercoming across in cover on a try bound opponent. a big shoulder charge can motivate your teammates, ala sonny bill or carl webb on bailey in the state of origin. asserting physical dominance is a big mental part of footy. a big shoulder charge can knock the ball out of the oppositions grasp more readily than a regular tackle. possession is everything in rugby league. the rule book should have no grey areas IMO. the shoulder charge rule, as it is, has lots of grey areas, as the policing of it shows. i would actually be in favour of eliminating "knock-on/knock-back" in the contest and making any dropped ball a handover (knock-back would be allowed when for example fielding a kick when theres no defenders around for example, but the second you make contact with a defender, any unintentionally dropped ball is a turnover). shoulder charges allowed. contact with the head not allowed. doesnt get much more straight forward and black and white than that. [/QUOTE]

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